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The touchstone of sincerity, or, The signs of grace and symptoms of hypocrisy opened…The touchstone of sincerity, or, The signs of grace and symptomes of hypocrisie opened…
The touchstone of sincerity, or, The signs of grace and symptoms of hypocrisy opened in a practical treatise upon Revelations III 17, 18 being the second part of the Saint indeed / by John Flavell ...The touchstone of sincerity, or, The signs of grace and symptomes of hypocrisie opened in a practical treatise upon Revelations III 17, 18 being the second part of the Saint indeed / by John Flavell ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1698
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THE Touchstone of Sincerity: OR, THE SIGNS Of GRACE, AND Symptoms o… › Chapter 7 › Section 2
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Thirdly, When self•ends and designs at • accommodated & promoted by these thing• this was the case of Jesu, 2 Kings […] 16. come see my zeal, for what? for a ba•• self-interest, not for God: how fervently will some men pray, preach, and profel• whilst they sensibly feel the incomes & profit of these duties to their flesh: whilst the• a•e admired and applauded!
Thirdly, When self•ends and designs at • accommodated & promoted by these thing• this was the case of Ie•u, 2 Kings 〈…〉 16. come see my zeal, for what? for a ba•• self-interest, not for God: how ferventl• will some men pray, preach, and profel• whilest they sensibly feel the incomes & profit of these duties to their flesh: whilest the• a•e admired and applauded!
These external incentives will put an hypocrite into an hot fit of zeal, but then as […] is with a man whose colours are raised b• the heat of the fire, and not by the heal•h• fullness of a good constitution; it soon fade• and falls again.